Example sentences of "[verb] give that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 2 | So far as boilerplate conditions are concerned , the draftsman can add these to the extent that they seem appropriate and necessary , although he should be sparing given that the aim of the exercise is to produce a relatively short set of commercially acceptable terms and conditions . |
| 3 | Then do n't you think given that case , we should set up a whole inter international thing , which oversees all the governments ? |
| 4 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 5 | This is to be expected given that most of the initial investors were actively involved in the regional economy and anticipated wider gains . |
| 6 | The ecological disaster created by the diversion of water from the Aral Sea for the sake of a better cotton crop has given that sort of thinking a severe knock . |
| 7 | They were and still are designed to give that style of dance spaciousness , calm , balance and grace of form so that the lines drawn during the transition from one step an/or pose to another fills the available space in every dimension . |
| 8 | You want to give that to Deborah ? |
| 9 | I thought you 'd given that up . |
| 10 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 11 | He passed out top in the Foreign Office entrance exam after Oxford and began work in Whitehall on the European Political Co-operation desk , ironically named given that at that time General de Gaulle was thwarting Britain 's European ambitions . |
| 12 | The increase is slightly less in the case of beverages , which is what one would expect given that wine stocks could service two establishments more easily than food ones . |
| 13 | Barbara Hardy already takes the view in 1975 that some amendment to practical modes of teaching is needed given that many students find no affinity with the Leavisian critical stance , nor " share the faith in Englishness and European civilisation " . |
| 14 | Funding an operation of this kind required the authorisation of the office of France 's prime minister , Laurent Fabius , and he was certainly not going to give that without the president 's approval . |
| 15 | Four fivers make twenty quid , and he was going to give that amount to his bruiser . |
| 16 | Craig : How on earth are you going to give that back to Shelima ? |
| 17 | He is not going to give that up . |
| 18 | Someday , if ever I found the right producer and a label were interested , I 'd like to give that a shot . ’ |
| 19 | Now look you 've got to give that ticket back to Mr otherwise you wo n't get a Christmas dinner ! |
| 20 | When have you got to give that back ? |
| 21 | Such an obligation would be particularly hard to justify given that those who join in the future will do so on financial terms that reflect the company 's situation at the time they acquire their shares . |
| 22 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 23 | But this is in no way relevant to what one has to do given that one did not . |
| 24 | That may not be as difficult as S&N or anyone else fears given that women 's more consensus-based approach to management is increasingly seen to be an appropriate style of management . |
| 25 | ‘ Let us decide to give that madness a miss . ’ |
| 26 | The fact that these memories are often associated with emotional situations is interesting but dangerous to interpret given that there is no easy way to estimate the number of similar emotional situations which did not lead to such memories . |
| 27 | ‘ And here lies Aldhelm , who could have given that brother a face and a name , beyond any question . |
| 28 | I , I , I would n't have given that a chance , I must admit I would never have backed it . |
| 29 | And having given that advice to the pet shop , does it have to be complied with ? |
| 30 | Oh , we could have give that one to Reg as well but it 's a bit busted up . |